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Orientalism in Translation: Familiarizing and Defamiliarizing Strategies." Translator's Strategies and Creativity: Selected Papers From the 9th International Conference on Translation and Interpreting, Prague, September 1995.
"I think Edward Said would say Tom MacMaster is a perfect example of
Orientalism itself," she added, "MacMaster was trying to be the only one to explain what this kind of woman is going through."
In his introduction to
Orientalism, Edward Said defines his title term from three separate angles.
Chapters 3 and 4 deal with Sinophobia and
Orientalism and examine discourses produced both on the island and in the diaspora.
Throughout the term, students engage in intensive discussions on the history of
Orientalism and the thoughts of contemporary Western scholars about Islam.
Post-colonial critics continue to produce learned books and essays on the language, structures, tools, intricacies and even the arcana of
Orientalism, but they pay scant attention to native
Orientalism.
Whiteness and
Orientalism haunt my student feedback forms.
As postmodernism has found an important ally in postcolonialism, many writers and theories have derived a large impetus from the work of one of the most influential theorists on this subject, Edward Said, who in
Orientalism (1978) presents a strong anti-imperialist and anti-colonial argument.
This idea of
Orientalism generated great excitement among young 'post-modernist' academics.
Orientalism reinforced a range of stereotypes associated with Eastern cultures, but the exhibition is exploring this form of art as more than a naive depiction or as dealing in stereotypes.
In her introduction, Harrison writes that the collection of essays asks "what it would mean to think the Maghreb after
Orientalism , forty years after the publication of a work that invites us to denaturalize our disciplinary formations and areas of specialization.
Edward Said's 1979
Orientalism is a forceful polemic that has become a milestone in critical theory, says Varisco, and Reading
Orientalism is a judicious satirical criticism suggesting that people move beyond the polemicized rhetoric of the binary blame game.
